Earthside Comments: This Sarah Palin -- that old John McCain has chosen because he thinks she is the best qualified person in the whole radical Republican Party to be President if he were incapacitated -- is now proven to be unready for the job, unfit for the vice presidential nomination.
Because it is common sense, if she were all McCain claims her to be, then she could easily meet with members of the national press and answer any and all questions ... like Obama and Biden have already done.
Will Sarah Palin be on 'Meet the Press' THIS Sunday? No.
Because she cannot answer even rudimentary, unscripted questions about the big and little issues in the election.
If she were indeed ready to be President on day one, then she'd be on 'Face the Nation' and ABC's program and 'Late Edition' THIS Sunday.
But she won't be -- because we all know she cannot!
John McCain by evidence of his judgment in picking a running mate has proven himself, too -- unready for command!
Link: No Questions, Please. We'll Tell You What You Need To Know. | Jay Carney/TIME
According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads. Here's the exchange:
Wallace's bash-the-media exercise has its merits as a campaign tactic. It certainly rallies the base. But the base won't lift McCain to 50% in November. More importantly, in her smug dismissal of the media's role in asking questions of the candidates, Wallace was really showing contempt not for reporters, but for voters. I bet there are a lot of undecided voters out there who were intrigued by Sarah Palin last night, but who don't yet know enough about her -- what she believes, what she knows -- to be comfortable with the idea of her as vice president of the United States. It's important to them to know if Palin can handle herself in an environment that isn't controlled and sanitized by campaign image makers and message mavens. Maybe she can, maybe she can't. As far as Wallace is concerned, it's none of their -- or your -- business.
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